{"id":22185,"date":"2013-06-27T16:26:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22185"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:27:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:27:30","slug":"jacob-zuma-mandela-asleep-during-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22185","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela In Critical Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG\u00a0 \u2014 South Africa\u2019s president on Monday said a critically ill <strong>Nelson Mandela <\/strong>was \u201casleep\u201d when he visited the 94-year-old at the hospital, and he urged the country to pray for <strong>Mandela<\/strong>, describing him as the \u201cfather of democracy\u201d who made extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of his people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Jacob Zuma<\/strong> told dozens of foreign and South African journalists that doctors are doing everything possible to help the former president feel comfortable on his 17th day in a Pretoria hospital, but refused to give details of <strong>Mandela\u2019s<\/strong> condition, saying: \u201cI\u2019m not a doctor.\u201d The briefing came a day after the government said <strong>Mandela\u2019s<\/strong> condition had deteriorated and was now critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG\u00a0 \u2014 South Africa\u2019s president on Monday said a critically ill Nelson Mandela was \u201casleep\u201d when he visited the 94-year-old at the hospital, and he urged the country to pray for Mandela, describing him as the \u201cfather of democracy\u201d who made extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of his people. President Jacob Zuma told dozens of foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}